Friday, September 11, 2009

Nice News: Brown Apologises to Turing

Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay.
From the Guardian. Read on here.

Turing played a vital role in the war effort. He also invented the Turing Test, which has been highly influential in thought about artificial intelligence (AI).

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